Some simple subtraction, in-head, would give the answer, no computer needed.
Pathetic.
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Rather than replying to anyone, and starting a flame war, I’m just going to say:
A well mastered, not compressed to death and ruined by shit sample rate conversions and jitter, master cut to LP will sound far superior to a CD with a sh*t loudness war master.
The problem is usually the mastering, but LP or tape will be at least as satisfying as any CD can be if operating at their full potential. Most people have never heard good LP or tape, and never will. Heck, most younger people today have never even heard a decent Hifi (or Stereo, as we used to say).
In any event, unlike virtually all other search warrants, warrants issued under Blighty's Data Protection Act must by law, in most circumstances, require those on the receiving end be given seven days of notice of the intended swoop in writing, and be given a chance to argue against the warrant if they so wish.
Brilliant! Only in the UK...
One also wonders what they could achieve in 7 hours on the premises?
Unless they took hardware with them for forensic analysis off-site?
They really are looking for evidence that the data was recently wiped. Not the actual data.
"Unless users clicked a "grant permission" button, in which case why do they blame the app?"
These permissions are bundled together and "essential" for the app to work at all.
Users are conditioned to allow it all, or they won't be able to use the apps.
There used to be a relationship of trust between users and software companies. This is now down the drain, thanks to Google, Facebook and the like. Lawmakers still seem extremely behind the curve, decades after the IT revolution took off.
I'm surprised Google isn't being chastised yet for actually allowing all this slurping.
They have the APIs in Android. They seem to allow any app to request any amount of access, incorrectly assuming that the user understands the implications and rejects apps that asks for too broad permissions (or, more likely, Google just don't care).
The contrast with Apple's model is very stark -but then again, Apple makes money from the device purchases, app sales, and services sales. Not from the user's data.
"The design basis for an engine is to "survive" ingesting one of its own fan blades, which poses much more interesting materials challenges to downstream equipment than bones or metal and plastic bits."
And yet a few geese knocked out both engines on that Hudson plane.
If a drone could knock out several blades, which then, obviously, get ingested, we have a situation.
I guess the actual result would depend on what bits the drone contains, and where they happen to hit the blades. Perhaps the drone is carrying a camera, with a titanium mount and some other metals.
"Anyone want to guess the odds of whether Facebook still exists at the end of the year?
And no, I don't mean bad publicity alone will sink them. I mean a combination of lawsuits, criminal charges, investors pulling out, advertisers leaving in droves, etc."
I wish. But I don't think this will happen. FB will paint this as themselves having been wronged by CA. Their complacency with GSR's usage/slurping of FB data will be portrayed as them having been hacked (with social engineering applied to some of FBs administrators).
"The interesting thing is that CA are only behaving as a state actor's equivalent State Security organisation would behave, without oversight, all of the time."
There is no "only" about it. It's a private firm, not a state organisation.
State organisations may look like they have no oversight, but there is internal accountability running to the government. (Flawed, of course, but at least it's supposed to be there.)
Entities like CA are more dangerous than state organisations (assuming we are talking about those of democracies).
"Chapter III - Everybody acknowledges the Era of Zero Privacy* and moves on."
A lot of younger "adults" have already stated that they don't care. They are addicted to social platforms and all kinds of privacy intruding services, and don't care how this is used to bend their feeble minds.
We need laws and enforcement of the laws before we have these morons completely in the hands of the likes of Nix (or Trump, or Bannon).
Never understood their pricing.
It's a Radio Shack type outfit. And they try to sell HDMI cables, Firewire cables, etc, at 20+ pound prices..
Why would one even go in there any longer? We already have Currys etc to try to rip us off -but that's in conjunction with selling large TVs etc, so that rip-off cable will seem less pricey (mind already numbed by paying 1000+).
A store mainly selling accessories can't have rip-off prices on accessories.
We will NEVER 'consume all our resources'.
Perhaps not. But we might consume all resources that we can realistically make use of.
And we may poison our environment while doing so to the extent that we expire as a race.
And we may alter the climate of the planet to the extent that we expire as a race.
We may just end up being an ultimately short-lived and not very successful experiment in large-brain creatures with dexterous forelimbs (vs. for example thick skin, sharp teeth, massive jaws, superior immune system, low metabolism).
"They've paid for Blue Planet"
You know they sell these things to other providers, right?
It's not as if we get the right to get the 4k discs at cost just because we actually payed for the production of the stuff..
Why, BTW, doesn't BBC let us have access to the complete archive of older stuff?
What do we need?
Didn't BBC just cancel the subscription of Met Office data? (Seems they tried to to save a little money, but had to go back due to the alternative being completely shit. Gives confidence in BBC, doesn't it?)
We sure as hell don't need BBC paying 100k-400k salaries to people.
The BBC has proven mostly useless the last decade, with light entertainment crowding out everything that the BBC should be doing.
I'd say keep BBC, but slash it's funding into half -meaning half the licence fee.